Sets The Hobbit
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Lovely bird. I think it's just shy of what I'd need, partially because I worry folk will whiff on the Speak Secrets half of the card too often. I love a dude that will help me fill up my graveyard, and I especially like it with ninjutsu/sneak, so I'll keep my eyes on it, but I'm not quite sold yet.
I'm really pleased with all the forest animals in the set. Feels like an organic way to fill out the set with creatures besides legendary dwarves and the like.
Love this Nasty Little Rabbit, these names are great. Nessian Hornbeetle has been enough of a menace in every limited format I've played it in that version with just one less power for half the mana is kind of interesting to me. I think it's going to be relegated to my Champion's League rather than the Premiership, but an excellent design nonetheless.
Thrór's Map is surprisingly close for me. This 2mv artifact essentially draws you a card/fixes you on ETB, and then turns into most of a Currency Converter after the fact. I still prefer the recurring treasure tokens out of Collector's Vault more than this, but I won't pretend I'm not compelled by this, and may be willing to play all 3 looting artifacts.
Yet another Terramorphic Expanse variant. I'm always surprised to not see at least one or two of these in Cubes that don't double up on proper fetches, at least an Evolving Wilds or something. Even with the Landscapes, I still run that one plus Fabled Passage and Prismatic Vista. I think for any Cube that has more than a few Halflings, this is probably competitive with Fabled Passage, as that fifth land coming in untapped could instead be a Bilbo. I'm currently at eight halflings, so I think if nothing else, I'll give this a try over Evolving Wilds. It's got nice art, and though I don't really expect its cycling ability to come up that much, I do like it.
Hell yeah. These are some A+ art, and I love the flavor text basics. It's a competitive year, but all five of these are making my increasingly-tight singleton basic land box I use with my Cube.
for those supporting Kiki/Twin, you have another piece here.
For those who like hybrids, simple cards and good all around stats (everyone??). Doesn’t feel very Black though.
A hybrid TukTuk with counters is pretty cool. I’ll be adding this to my cube with Vesperlark and be pretty happy about it.
To be clear, the bird is for my lower powered cube, agree with you it isn’t it for higher powered.
Gruul has always been the primary Stompy colors but I am kind of excited seeing pieces like this that dip the archetype deeper into Jund. Garruk, Veiled Butcher's Tokens being another recent example.
I feel like 'Fires' follows 'Stompy' historically, sort of curious if we will eventually get some better support in Black as well.
I guess I associate Black with big creatures with a downside like Rotting Regisaur or Titania, Rugged Rumbler. I’m not a stickler for colour pie though, so don’t mind seeing new space being explored.
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